141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

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Consumer Empowerment Through the Use of Health IT

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
From Hispanic and Latino populations seeking to bridge the 'language divide' as they seek health information, to transgender communities seeking culturally competent and appropriate care, to an understanding of the distribution of America's healthcare workforce, there remains a need to empower consumers and policy makers to understand and improve population health. This session examines various IT initiatives designed to attack these problems.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants should be able to: describe how various communities can be empowered to improve their health via HIT.
Moderator:
Rishi Manchanda, MD MPH
Organizer:
Diane L. Adams, MD, MPH, DABCHS, CHS-III

12:30pm
Internet as a source of health information among the u.s. hispanic population: A “language divide”   
Maria De Jesus, PhD
12:50pm
Geoinformatics, community health, and high schools in south central los angeles: An urban, participatory, web-based geomedicine pilot to improve social determinants of health   
Rishi Manchanda, MD MPH, Linda Sharp, MD, Hannah Kim, Rebecca Long, Deborah Kim, Erin Mckenzie, Lyndsey Bradley, Ricky Choi, MD MPH and Laura Gottlieb, M.D., M.P.H.
1:10pm
Visualizing the healthcare workforce of the United States   
Sean Finnegan, MS, Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, Jennifer Rankin, PhD, Mark Carrozza, MA and Jené Grandmont, MA
1:30pm
Diffusing the innovation of an online virtual grand rounds series using avatar videos for cultural competence training for healthcare providers: Responses to http://culturalcompetencetraining.org/   
Barbara Wallace, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Health Informatics Information Technology Center (HIIT Center)

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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